Mpte Associate Bid Director

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

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**Job Description**:
**Reports to**: Head of the Major Pursuits Team, Director Work Winning

**Function**: The Associate Bid Director works on the most strategic and complex major bids using their experience and expertise to guide and support senior business leaders, technical teams, bid teams and capture managers in the End Markets to efficiently deliver winning bids. The Associate Bid Director has a target win rate of 50%, working selectively from the qualified pipeline on those opportunities that will make the greatest difference to NSR and EBITA growth.

The Associate Bid Director is responsible for leading bid teams in the creation of bid win strategy and driving that strategy throughout all stages of the bid from facilitation of kick off, delivery method creation, commercial challenge, through the bid submission to interview / presentation preparation and debrief. The Associate Bid Director is responsible for escalating risks to winning with the Head of the Major Pursuits Team and mitigating these risks. They are responsible for sharing lessons learnt and enabling continuous improvement in our bidding efforts.

The Associate Bid Director role is “front-of-house” and involves direct interaction with clients as well as creating impact with internal colleagues to drive positive change in the way in which they approach their major pursuits strategy and delivery.

**Responsibilities**:
+ Acts as an exemplar for work winning. Balancing entrepreneurism and discipline to achieve a target beating win rate

+ Is seen as a strategic partner to End Market capture managers on key pursuits, challenging and supporting in equal measure

+ Works with CAM teams and capture managers to gather client and scope intelligence and gain an understanding of positioning activities to date

+ Meets the client key decision makers with the CAM/capture manager to gather intelligence around the key decision makers thinking/project scope

+ Directly leads and supports the creation and execution of win strategies, using the Four Rules method, working with capture managers, CAM, and marketing to establish what the client really wants, who the key decision-makers are, how we will deliver better than the competition and how to express this clearly and well

+ Works with the capture manager and team on the development of winning solutions, such as partnering and bringing in key expertise or specialists from across the business

+ Works with the capture manager to identify all technical, work winning, visual communications and marketing resources and skills required to ensure they are available when needed

+ Engages early with the marketing teams on thought leadership, marketing and PR campaigns to position AECOM with the client key decision makers for the opportunity

+ Facilitates delivery strategy workshops with bid teams to make sure the delivery method architecture is in place, prior to bid document release

+ Leads the delivery of the bid in conjunction with the capture manager and support services

+ Leads a holistic approach to bidding from win strategy creation, to running, in parallel, both the commercial/pricing and technical/quality workstreams, through to bid debrief, such as facilitating:
+ answer plan and review workshops giving a clear brief of the task ahead to the bid writers and contributors.

+ pricing lessons learnt and commercial challenge team reviews for the pricing/commercial element of the bid.

+ Ensures the effective use of the WW process and tools, for all bids, to optimize the opportunity of winning.

+ Coaches and trains bid teams in the creation of win strategies, bid writing and pricing bids.

+ Provides effective facilitation of all workshops and meetings throughout the positioning and bid timeline.

+ Manages and reports on the bid budget

+ Oversees the communication of the daily progress updates and identified risks to delivering a winning bid

+ Effectively uses senior level connections / networks to support a winning bid and enlists the help of senio



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